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carlosqt: Works on NB 7.3
Mac OSX 10.7.5
Java 1.7.0_15 64Bit

Introduction

Dark theme for Nimbus Look and Feel. It goes well with "Norway Today" editor color scheme.
It does not affect other look and feel implementations so you must force Nimbus l&f, e.g. by using --laf Nimbus command line switch. To revert back to the default Nimbus theme you must uninstall this module, it is not enough to deactivate the module!

Dark Nimbus and Dark Metal Look and Feel in NetBeans

breaks after 8.0.1

bubergeson, which version of netbeans are you running?

I noticed that in 8.0.2 the editor has a new themeing menu for some themes that come built-in, and they overrule the dark metal theme. Because of this I have kept my version of netbeans at 8.0.1 because I really love this theme.

Almost there

This is a nice theme but there are some bugs.

First, if you just install the theme but have some other theme selected like Nimbus, then when you are editing a Dialog, JFrame, or any other GUI component and select preview in Dark Nimbus the Editor window changes the Dark Theme which it should not.

Secondly, if I have this theme installed, because I like to use it for development and I want my RCP application built upon NetBeans to also have this theme available, but I want my RCP app to launch with just Nimbus as the default, I had to add the following code in my installer:

The first line of code above was necessary since I am launching the app with a different theme then what NetBeans is running. If I just use the UIManager to set the look and feel but modify it to use the Dark Nimbus theme and then launch the app it acts as though it is not fully using it. Some of the icons will be white around them. Also, If I look in the Tools->Options->Appearance->Look And Feel I see that Dark Nimbus is not selected. If I select it and then relaunch the app then it works correctly. If I add the first line of code above then this issue seems to be fixed most of the time.

Thirdly, sometimes I will get errors when my app launches saying that it can't find my splash screen image. This doesn't occur when the Dark Nimbus theme is not being used with my app.

Fourth, it seems flakey. Sometimes my app will launch using Dark Metal. I can shut it down and relaunch it and it will then work correctly.

Fifth, the JTextPane component doesn't seem to set the background color correctly. I had to add the following for it to work correctly:
UIDefaults defaults = new UIDefaults();
defaults.put("TextPane[Enabled].backgroundPainter", c); // c is the color
putClientProperty("Nimbus.Overrides", defaults);
putClientProperty("Nimbus.Overrides.InheritDefaults", true);

Overall, I think this is a great theme but until it is less buggy/flakey I cannot deploy it with my applications. I wish it were added officially to the NetBeans distribution the same way that Nimbus has been added.

I'm using the latest nightly build (201306272300), and the search results window is still displaying black text on dark blue background. When you click on something, it does highlight the background as a lighter color, but if you have a huge list of results, it's not exactly efficient to have to click on each one to find what you're looking for.

How to install/Unintall

How to switch to the built-in theme

I'm trying to figure out how to switch on the theme in NB 7.3.1. Everybody is referring to "Tools - Options - Windows" to find the option, but I don't have such. I've got only "Tools -> Options -> Misc. (panel) -> Windows (sub-panel)", but there is nothing that would allow me to use this theme.

I'm on Win. 7 64-bit.

AFAIK this theme is included in NB 7.3.1, and I don't need to use the plugin from here. Am I supposed to know this differently?

bug 7.3

Working well on Suse 12.3

Added the plugin in Netbeans, it wants to restart, after restart doesn't work yet, but as described in the introduction, I edited
/usr/local/netbeans-7.3/etc/netbeans.conf
netbeans_default_options=" --laf Nimbus"
Then it works.

Not Working on fedora

Not working on Linux Mint/openSuse

Installed on Linux Mint/Cinnamon/Mate and Linux OpenSuse/Gnome/KDE: I can't see any difference.
File and directory names in Project and Navigator windows (on the left) are visible only if selected (font and background colors are white).
Is there a workaround to make it works?
Disable (without uninstall) the plugin the style return to standard settings.

Does Not Work on Linux Mint

Mac friendly version?

Hi I am using netbeans 7.3 on OS X 10.8.2, this pretty much hijacks all the normal menu operations into the application window in an X11 style.... perhaps theres a way to have this keep the menus in a natively managed format? Other than that I very much like the dark theme.

Dark blue colors are less visible on dark background

The theme is nice, but I suggest to replace the dark Blue colors on dark background (javadoc tags, html tags in javadoc comments, file names highlighted due to versioning status) with some kind of a light blue color, such as Cyan.